I'm leeeeeeeeeeeaving on a jet plane

This is my favourite kind of toothbrush:


For some reason they're pretty hard to get hold of, so when I found this last packet (with some numbers written on it, maybe someone's phone number?) I made a sound like "IMWAEH!", grabbed it, and went home happy.

Anyways, I'm off to the USA in a couple of days and I've been thinking about cool things to buy and see when I'm there. I will be going to Portland, Oregon, Michigan, and New York City. I want to look into things like OPI, China glaze, essie, L'Occitane, Lush, Clinique, NYX, Burt's bees, Yes to carrots, and Urban Outfitters nail polish.
If anyone has any good advice on places or brands to check out, please let me know :)

The times they are a-changing

Yesterday I made these with a friend:


A nice mix of easter rabbits, chickens, and sheep. In a wide range of colors. And we actually enjoyed ourselves. Even though we tried not to. While listening to Ace of Base and jazz (oh my, what a mix!). But it all had a certain childhood feel to it (except the jazz) and in a few days time we will have cress


Afterwards we made things out of papier maché and watched 30 Rock and when we were about to go to bed (around 3am) the fire alarm started beeping. And then we remembered that last night was when summertime started.
We had to get up before noon today to go look at a house that's for sale (no, we're not a couple and no, we're not going to buy a house, but that doesn't mean you can't look at it, right?). The house turned not to look like a place with an open house arrangement going on so we just walked back home and made more easter decorations.
I've pretty much survived on chips and coke and cake. It'll get better tomorrow, I pinky swear :)

I'm obsessed with the mess that's America

I hate planning trips! Right now I'm planning to go to the USA for about 20 days in April, and it's just so much work. Most of the time I can't help myself thinking about how much easier (and cheaper) it would be to just stay at home. Which would mean being stuck in Esbjerg... Where nothing ever happens. Except for of course when I'm in America and missing out on both a wedding and a house warming.
Had a birthday dinner last night. Involving a lot of food and mojitos and wine. Nom nom. Ended up going to a small, creepy bar with old alcoholics and a jukebox playing sing-a-long songs. I often find that people at these places are so much more friendly than the people at cool bars. And I felt very grown up while remembering to actually remove my make up before going to bed :) Well, waking up today to a fridge filled with left overs was pretty amazing, too.
Easter is coming up and right now it looks as if it's going to be sort of busy. A lot of friends are coming to town to visit their families. I have to do some laundry. And hopefully I will be able to write something more exciting than this, haha! But right now I have a full fridge waiting for me to indulge in.

Skittlemania

This picture pretty much explains what I did on my 22nd birthday. Went to the beach with a friend and his dog. Please note that the sun is shining :)

But of course I was running late. And of course I decided on emptying the dust bin on my way out. In Denmark most dust bins look like this:


... and somehow the bag got stuck to the metal thingy and before I knew what I was doing the door was on my foot and not on the hinges.
But as I said, most dust bins in Denmark (and Sweden, and maybe other places as well) are placed under the kitchen sink. This is good to know when people invite you to stay for dinner and you want to throw away your gum. However, in the very few cases where people choose alternative places for their trash it always causes confusion and you have to walk around and look for the bin with your gum between your fingers and it gets sticky and you have to laugh akwardly when you finaly find the dust bin and strugle to get the gum off of your fingers. Sigh!

Another thing you should know about Denmark (and Sweden) is that you can't buy Skittles. Something about them being too artifical... And we all know that people want what they can't have :) So when I tell my friends that I bought Skittles in London they somehow transform themselves into drooling zombies with a haunted look in their eyes and tell me long love stories about how they know someone who knows someone who paid an indescribable amount of money on amazon to get their hands on a bag full of these little sugary wonders.

I'm flying to the USA in two weeks time and I have no doubt about how I will end up stuffing my suitcase with treats so unhealthy that you can't find them in a Danish supermarket. This will certainly impress my peers!

note: we DO have candy in Denmark, our government is just trying to protect us from things with too much artificial taste and color.

Losing my hair as I get older

Sigh! My parents woke me up at 6am, gave me my presents, and then I went back to sleep. Later on I woke up again and discovered that my arm was... streaky. Further examination of my body revealed discoloration on the other arm as well as my legs. I was this close (holding my fingers pretty close together and waving them at the computer screen) to calling my parents and ask them to take me to the hospital because obviously it had to be some sort of blood infection, when I remembered putting on bodylotion with a slight selftanner yesterday. I've done this for years, but usualy only in the summer when I'm already somewhat golden (I don't get a tan. I don't really get red either, my skin just sort of turn a bit golden). And now I know that this is the only time of year I should actually use this, since using it while being as pale as I am right now, makes it look as if it was applied by a 5-year-old.
Even a shower and a pretty harsh body scrub didn't make it go away. However, I lost a big lock of hair. I wasn't even surprised by this, since my hair is quite damaged by more than a year of bleaching and now it's permed.
If anyone has a good trick as how to make damaged hair look a bit more alive, let med know :)

Now I will find some nice ways to enjoy my birthday!

Off to bed

And when I wake up I'll be 22 years old :) I always get overexcited around my birthday and Christmas, almost like a 4-year-old child waiting for the presents, haha!

Inside of me there's a drag queen waiting to come out

I was running late today as well... I feel as if I'm late for all my appointments these days. It's horrible. Don't know what's wrong with me, I have so much time on my hands and I still can't seem to be anywhere on time. And I only ever do like half of what I'm planning to do.

A friend of mine just got dumped. I haven't seen her in forever and we don't call each other very often. I have no idea of what to say to her right now. I just try to cheer her up by saying things like "the sun i shining, take a bath, get some fresh air". It's like trying to help a complete stranger. And I've never even met the guy.
What do you do to cheer up your friends when they are feeling down?

More from London

While being in London I went to Tate Modern where they have an exhibition right now, that's pretty much just a HUGE container that you walk inside of, and it's completely dark and scary and really really cool :)
Sunday I went to Brick Lane and the Sunday Up Market. I found this ring, it was almost too good to be true, so af course I had to buy it. And I remembered putting it in my suitcase when I was flying back so they wouldn't confiscate is as a weapon



Obviously I went to Topshop as well, since we don't have one of those where I live. I alway get extremely confused when walking around in Topshop on Oxford Street - It's too big and I'm so afraid of missing out on something good and the music is loud and in the end I'm just really dizzy. However, in all my dizzyness (is that even a word?) I litteraly walk into the Barry M counter and found the love of my life. A mint green nailpolish that I'd been looking for all over London!



It got me so excited that I sqeaked and bought another nailpolish in coral and a dazzle dust in gold, as well.









These pictures don't show how ubelievably GOLD this gold actually is. It's... just SO... gold. It's like applying genuine gold onto your skin. Not sure when I'm going to use this, but being in my buying fit I couldn't walk away without this little darling.

Going to the pharmacy and then to the library and then to a friend to eat cake, nom nom <3

Let's do the time warp again!

The reason why I spend what turned out to be three hours today watching Fanny & Alexander, was that I had borrowed it from the library and I had to take it back along with some other things. But while returning the things I discovered that I had forgotten a cd at home, so I'll have to go back tomorrow.

And I was late for my coffee date because the movie was so long.

The good part of today is that at the library I found the soundtrack to The Rocky Horror Picture Show and now I'm dancing around in my living room :)
And my nails look amazing - the coral color is almost luminous in dim light.

Another thing that makes me happy is my birthday. It's only two days away from now, yay!

A quick post before going out for coffee

My socks, now color coordinated



and my stockings



Yes, a potential waste of time, since it will probably be a mess in two weeks time anyway...

Just finished painting my nails a beautiful coral color while watching Fanny & Alexander - a really really really long Swedish movie! I find it hard to concentrate when movies are too long.

On a different note; I went to London last week, and loving free things, I bought a couple of magazines. One was Glamour where I got some sort of hair mask (haven't tried that one yet), the other was Marie Claire, which came with a facial creme from Neal's Yard. And OMG! It's amazing! Should you be in the UK, maybe you should consider spending the £3,5o the magazine costs.

I'm off to drink coffee with a friend!

Tell me, what is your favourite nail polish right now? What kind of movies do you like? Do you buy magazines to get free things, even when you don't really need them?

// Nanna

FTC disclaimer: I haven't received anything from anyone to write this. All thoughts are my own.

Wait!

I forgot to show you my drawing:

Another Sunday night

Hello world!
So. This is my very first blog post. I'm writing because it feels like the world is coming to an end. Earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamies, depressions, break ups, divorces, bad friends, backstapping, the financial crisis, crime. I could go on. But I won't. I'd rather try to make the world a better place. I'd like to be perfect.
But I'm not. I'm not quite sure of what I am, but I'm certainly not perfect. Most days I'm confused. I have too many things to choose from. Too many ice cream brands even when I know I shouldn't eat it at all. And more importantly, too many future career opportunities to choose from.
I'm confused and I don't know what to do with my life. I could use some advice. Maybe your advice? I'd like to give advice as well. Advice about travelling, products, and what ever else I know anything about. I'd like to exchange experiences. I'd like to make it okay to have off days. To try to focus on the positive even when it feels like the world is coming to an end.
And I hope you're with me :)
I will write something proper tomorrow, but right now I'm off to color coordinate my socks...
// Nanna